Nov. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1639

Crown Lands Notices.

Sale of Lease by Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Patea, 4th November, 1884.

IT is hereby notified that Section No. 32, Block III., Waimate Survey District, a reserve not required for immediate use, containing 90 acres and 20 perches, and situated near the Town of Manaiia, will be offered for lease by public auction, for a term of fourteen years, at the upset rental of 10s. an acre, at the Land Office, Hawera, on Wednesday, the 3rd December next, at 10.30 a.m.

No compensation will be allowed for improvements at the end of the term.

C. A. WRAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands to be leased, Forty-Mile Bush District, Wairarapa.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal.

Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited, in accordance with “The Land Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1882.”

The price tendered must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with six months’ rent at the rate tendered, and a fee of £1 10s. for lease and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, not later than 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884.

The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December (the following day), at 10 o’clock a.m., when the highest tenderer, if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by the Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either in person or by an agent authorized in writing, on the day on which the tenders are opened.

Plans and schedules of the sections, and copies of the regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained at the District Land Office, Wellington; at any of the other Land Offices in the colony; and may also be seen at the Railway Stations and Post Offices in the Wellington Provincial District.

The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter being on “Public Service only,” and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of postage; neither does the declaration require to be stamped.

Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of £1 10s. to pay for the lease and registration thereof, paid either in cash, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington: Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of £1 10s. in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same.

Any lessee who has fulfilled all conditions of improvements within six years can acquire the freehold of his lease on payment of the price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease.

NOTE.—Limits of area for each lessee: No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area than 640 acres anywhere in the colony.

The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer’s Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer’s Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-five miles, and forty miles. The Mangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville.

The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington to Napier is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected at several points.

The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c.

The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the area; it is well watered, and, as the climate is also very favourable the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes.

SCHEDULE.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1884.

Rural Land for Sale in the Forty-Mile Bush District, Wairarapa, in the Mangahao, Mangaone, Kopuaranga, and Kaiwhata Survey Districts, and in the Waipakura Survey District.

Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1884.

IT is hereby notified that the sections of land, as per Schedule hereunder, will be offered for sale on deferred payments, by application at the Land Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 16th December, 1884, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. If two or more applicants apply to purchase the same section, an auction will be held between them, at the Institute, Masterton, on Thursday, the 18th December, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon.

For the convenience of deferred-payment selectors resident in the Wairarapa District, a Government officer will be in attendance at the Institute, Masterton, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 16th December, to receive applications.